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Recent rainfall station totals
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About these data, maps and tables
- Maps and tables use real-time rainfall data, and limited quality control has been performed
- Some stations occasionally report multi-day accumulations, which may show up as high daily, weekly or month-to-date totals.
- Daily data are updated at and available around .
- Weekly data are updated at AEDT each day and available around .
- Monthly data are published around on the last day each month, then updated after midnight on the 2nd, 3rd and 22nd of the following month.
- Month periods use monthly totals, and have additional information, including 'Years of data', 'Mean' and 'Percentile' rainfall for the selected period. Percentiles are calculated for stations with at least 20 years of data; newer stations show N/A in map popups and -1.00 in the table view. Percentiles are expressed as a number out of 100. The percentile refers to the ranking of a particular value relative to all of the values for that site.
- Elevation is listed as -999 in the table when not available
- In the tables, select Station number to open rainfall table, or elsewhere in row to show on map
- Popups from the map, and Station numbers in the table, link to more rainfall information. In the tables, periods with daily data link to the latest year of daily rainfall values, and month periods link to the full station history of monthly data.
- More about rainfall data
Weekly highlights
Tropical cyclone Luana impacted the Kimberley coast
- Tropical Cyclone Luana made landfall as a Category 2 system on the afternoon of 24 January near Beagle Bay, on the northern Dampier coast of Western Australia. The system moved southwards and weakened to a tropical low on the afternoon of 25 January.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 50 to 150 mm were recorded across the Kimberley district, with falls of 150 to 300 mm in the north-west and locally higher falls greater than 300 mm.
- Throughout the week, a monsoon trough was active just north of Australia, enhancing rainfall across the tropical north and generating thunderstorms, including tropical low 18U which impacted northern Queensland.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 25 to 100 mm were recorded across northern Queensland and northern and eastern Northern Territory. Large areas had falls of 100 to 150 mm, and isolated falls exceeded 200 mm in the Peninsula district in Queensland, and around Darwin.
- A trough over western Queensland brought several days of thunderstorms and heavy rainfall.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 15 to 50 mm were recorded in western Queensland.
- A cold front crossed Tasmania on the 21st bringing low to moderate rainfall totals.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 5 to 25 mm were recorded across much of Tasmania, with falls of up to 50 mm in eastern parts of the state.
- The highest weekly total (at a Bureau gauge) was 334.4 mm at Country Downs in Queensland.
- The highest daily total (at a Bureau gauge) was 306.2 mm at Kowanyama Airport in Queensland in the 24 hours to 9 am on 24 January.
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History
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